Cambridge United are staying positive despite the recent run of results, says Harrison Dunk.

The U’s have only won three of their last 10 games in all competitions, although they have picked up a point in three of those as well.

More concerning for fans, however, is their lack of goals, particularly away from home where they’ve failed to find the net in seven consecutive fixtures.

And while conceding they are disappointed with their recent form, as results elsewhere have kept the U's just three points outside the play-offs, the midfielder said there’s plenty of cause for optimism.

“I think we’re all very disappointed with the last two results, obviously,” he said.

“But in the grand scheme of things results have sort of worked out for us, we’re still in with a shout of the play-offs, we’re still three points off.

“We just have to keep staying positive and we know that we have the belief in the changing room that we will turn things around and we will start scoring and the results will come.

“Every team that goes up in this league will lose a lot of games.

“It’s a different league to the Premier League and other leagues.

“Everyone beats everyone every week. You look at the results and there’s some kind of shock. We just have to not get too low when we lose and just make sure we try to get some consistency.”

And while the current period is difficult for the U’s, Dunk said that they can’t let the pressure go to their heads and that they have to maintain their usually impressive defensive structure.

“We’ve been working on it [scoring goals] in the training ground," he said.

“There’s no recipe for it and you’d be the best manager in the world and the best team in the world if you had one. We’ve just been working really hard, the coaches and staff are doing lots of attacking training and it’s just a matter of time and things will start clicking into place.

He added: “You don’t want to have it too much in your head as we’ll start leaking goals.

“That’s what we’ve been good at this year and maybe we’ve sacrificed a bit going forward but we have a good, strong base and everyone defends as a team, but we’ve just got to pick up the goals as well.”